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Archaeoastronomy: The deliberate
placement and orientation of the megaliths, along with several
specific design and construction features demonstrates an intimate
relationship between the builders, their buildings, the living-landscape and
the universe they found themselves in. (Quick-link)
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Altered Landscapes:
The introduction of forest clearance and agriculture enabled the
Neolithic 'Renaissance' in Europe, from which the culmination of
ideas involving the cosmos, the landscape and the afterlife
produced a range of landscape features which physically connected
them together. (Quick-link)
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Prehistoric Construction Techniques: The builders of the
megaliths, pyramids and other megalithic stone works left behind
several good visual clues as to the techniques they used to
achieve such an admirable repertoire of masonry skills. So good in
fact, that we struggle today to imagine exactly how or why such
tasks could have been undertaken. (Quick-link)
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Featured Articles
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The Top-50 Stones.
A look at
the largest megaliths from around the ancient world.
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Prehistoric Drug-use.
Psychotropic drugs and the evolution of the imagination.
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Holed-Stones.
Stones with holes in them - A
common construction feature around the ancient world.
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Cart-Ruts.
The
origin, form and function of these ancient rock-features.
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Simulacrum
Just how coincidental are
the examples of 'faces' in stones at megalithic sites?
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Desecrated Megaliths.
A look at
recently destroyed or damaged megaliths.
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